Beauty from Sorrow
We all carry the potential to create and to destroy.
But in moments of heartbreak, if we can reach inward and shape something beautiful from the ache, we turn pain into creativity.
Beethoven composed Moonlight Sonata while losing 60% of his hearing.
A masterpiece born from silence and deep sorrow.
A reminder: even in despair, we can still create beauty.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” — Rumi
Let your sorrow be your spark.
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Reception: Thursday , December 11, 2025
from 6:00-8:00 pm. #contemporaryart
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My paintings are like diary entries , visual memories from specific chapters of my life. They make me reflect on memory itself. Are we, at our core, just a collection of memories?
It fascinates me how we romanticize certain moments, how two people can share the same experience yet remember it so differently.
Music, scents, even colors can transport us back to a time, a feeling, a place , sometimes with startling clarity.
So, here’s a question I keep returning to:
If you could erase the painful memories, would you?
And if you did, would you still, be you?
“Each man’s memory is his private literature, and every recollection affects us with something
of the penetrative force that belongs to the work of art.”
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Last week to catch De Profundis: Echoes from the Deep at the Irving Arts Center!
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–5 PM
Carpenter Hall Lobby
As this exhibition ends, I want to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who made this experience so meaningful.
A heartfelt thank you to Manci Inman for her brilliant curatorial vision and unwavering dedication to the Irving Arts Center.
Her thoughtful organization of the reception and artist talk made this journey unforgettable.
To the incredible team who supported the event, and especially the devoted docents, thank you for your time, energy, and care.
This exhibition has truly set a new standard for me. From the deepest part of my heart thank you.
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.”
Rilke: Letters to a Young Poet
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Thank you to everyone who came out to the opening reception of De Profundis: Echoes from the Deep and to those who joined me for my very first artist talk .
Your support means the world!
If you haven’t had a chance to see the show yet, there’s still time! The exhibition is on view for two more weeks and closes on Saturday, October 25.
Irving Arts Center
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–5 PM
Come explore the depths and let me know what you think!
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Blue is the quiet hue where solitude meets creation.
Painting is a dialogue with silence,
melancholy its most faithful muse.
Van Gogh once wrote, “One must work and be daring, in spite of all the sorrows in the heart.”#contemporaryart
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Join me this Tuesday, October 7th, at 12:00 noon for my artist talk at the Irving Arts Center, part of their Lunch & Learn series.
I’ll be sharing my artistic journey, creative background, and painting process—and I’d love to connect with you in person.
Bring your lunch, your curiosity, and your questions, and let’s spend the hour together surrounded by art.
See you there!
Lately, I’ve been reflecting on the intricate layers of human nature.
We are not just one thing, we are a mosaic of experiences, losses, triumphs, fears, joys, and heartbreaks.
We wear masks, sometimes to protect, sometimes to hide, sometimes to create a persona.
But it makes me wonder:
Do we ever truly know someone? Can we ever truly know someone?
Do we ever truly know ourselves?
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
Carl Jung
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Blue is the breath of silence, the hush between stars.
Once born from stone lapis lazuli, mined from Afghan mountains, it traveled oceans to become ultramarine, the color of divinity.
In Renaissance chapels, it cloaked the Virgin in celestial grace. In the hands of painters, it whispered of longing, distance, and the infinite.
Blue is not just a color, it is a mood, a memory, a meditation.
“The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite.”
Wassily Kandinsky
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Thank you to everyone who braved Friday rush hour to join me at the opening reception of De Profundis: Echoes from the Deep at the Irving Arts Center! Your presence, especially those who traveled from Fort Worth and beyond, truly meant the world to me.
If you couldn’t make it, the exhibition is still on view through October 25th , come experience it!
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 12–5 PM
Want to dive deeper into the series and my creative process? Join me for a Lunch & Learn on Tuesday, October 7th from 12–1:30 PM. Bring your lunch and your curiosity I’d love to see you there!
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Painting is my meditation.
Each brushstroke grounds me, line by line, I return to the present. I release old hurts, let go of expectations, and simply breathe. I don’t rush. I don’t chase perfection.
I practice patience and being in the moment.
Sometimes beauty emerges. Sometimes it doesn’t. But every painting becomes a journal entry in the story of my life.
“Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Hello Friends!
I’m so excited to invite you to the opening reception of my exhibition,
De Profundis: Echoes from the Deep,
this Friday, September 19 from 6–8 PM at the Irving Arts Center – Carpenter Lobby Gallery.
This body of work, created mostly in 2024, is a celebration of beauty, creativity, and connection.
Let’s come together to honor art, friendship, and the deep echoes that unite us.
On view through October 25
Irving Arts Center | 3333 N. MacArthur Blvd, Irving, TX
I’d love to see you there and share this special evening with you!
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Color is a whisper of light.
It doesn’t exist
only wavelengths,
translated by the eye,
imagined by the mind.
“Color is the most relative medium in art.”
Josef Albers
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Exhibition Reception: De Profundis – Echoes from the Deep Friday, September 19 6–8 PM
“De Profundis” Out of the depths — a phrase that resonates with the soul of this exhibition and echoes the haunting beauty of Arvo Pärt’s music. Join me for an evening of art, reflection, and celebration. #contemporaryart
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For the philosopher Baruch Spinoza every leaf, breeze, beam of sunlight is an expression of the Divine.
Spinoza reminds us that the sacred is all around us.
“The more you understand nature, the more you understand yourself.”
Baruch Spinoza
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This painting is titled: Meaningful Moments
“I’ve been again reflecting on this profoundly beautiful quote by James Baldwin about love and friendship. It’s a reminder of the quiet power we hold in each other’s lives. Share it with someone who reflects your light:”
“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love, whether we call it friendship or family or romance is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Lifesaving work in those moments when life, shame, and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed, loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.”
— James Baldwin
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Painting feels like a beautiful mystery—transforming simple globs of color on a flat surface into an image that’s never existed before. There’s nothing quite like the joy and purpose this process brings me.
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” — Henry Ward Beecher#Flowerpainting
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Beauty is everywhere, woven into the quiet moments, the golden light, the curve of a petal. . All it takes is a pause to truly see it.
In a world that moves fast, beauty reminds us to slow down, reconnect, and feel. It nourishes our spirit, inspires creativity, and brings peace to our minds.
“Beauty will save the world.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Secret Garden isn’t just a story about a hidden patch of earth it’s about healing. A once forgotten place, left to wilt under the weight of grief and loss, begins to bloom again through quiet acts of care and love.
It gently reminds us of the gardens hidden within ourselves, spaces we’ve abandoned, left dormant.
“Though we are each responsible for our own life, we must become responsible for one another’s healing.”
Audre Lorde
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